COHEED AND CAMBRIA VAXIS II: A WINDOW OF THE WAKING MIND If you’re a fan of basically any music genre involving a guitar, 2022 feels like a year for looking back. Depending on who you talk to the pop punk revival is in full swing, followed closely by an emo revival and possibly also a post-hardcore revival quietly (read: loudly) waiting in the wings. It would be tempting for a band like Coheed and Cambria – whose groundbreaking first album “Second Stage Turbine Blade” turns 20 this year - to revisit the sounds of genres they helped pioneer. But making the same album twice just isn’t in their blood. It never has been. "I've always thought of us as sort of the oddity, the underdog,” said frontman and guitarist Claudio Sanchez. “Why follow trends [now]? I just wanted to write a record that was right for Coheed in 2022. We're still breaking ground.”